simile

How to use simile in a sentence

It called for him to write a poem using a simile or metaphor.

He surprises readers with similes that are sobering, in the middle of laughter.

The matron expressed her entire concurrence in this intelligible simile, and the beadle went on.

The modern simile is that of a donkey between two bundles of hay.

No one can say to himself, “I will now make a good simile,” and straightway fulfill his promise.

A simile is an expressed comparison between unlike things that have some common quality.

Here the simile seems to be as unlike as possible, for the lot could fall only upon one.

It was a fac-simile of a chair that we had at home, and I longed to occupy it, if only for the sake of old times.

Sir Mungo, to continue the simile, had long ago learned to run cunning, and make sure of mouthing his game.

To Miss Lacey the latter simile would have been more appealing.

THE OPENED SHUTTERSCLARA LOUISE BURNHAM

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985